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Association for Art and MediaenSPIP - www.spip.netAlgoliterary Encounterhttp://constantvzw.org/site/Algoliterary-Encounter.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Algoliterary-Encounter.html2017-09-23T11:46:07Ztext/htmlenAnWorkshopLectureExhibitionHybrid languagesLiteratureAlgorithm
<p>In the framework of Saison Numérique the Maison du Livre opens its space for Algolit during three days in a row. The group presents lectures, workshops and a small exhibition about the narrative perspective of neural networks. Neural networks are selflearning algorithms based on statistics. They often function as opaque 'blackbox' algorithms, while they shape applications that are daily used on a worldwide scale, like search engines on the web, translation machines, advertising profiling, (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>In the framework of Saison Numérique the Maison du Livre opens its space for Algolit during three days in a row. The group presents lectures, workshops and a small exhibition about the narrative perspective of neural networks. Neural networks are selflearning algorithms based on statistics. They often function as opaque 'blackbox' algorithms, while they shape applications that are daily used on a worldwide scale, like search engines on the web, translation machines, advertising profiling, facial recognition etc.</p> <p>Because neural networks are so present, the members of Algolit felt the need to distillate reading and writing experiments from it. By executing parts of the neural network process in a literary context, they become more legible. It is way to experience a few moments that are usually hidden in the making of the model, and that co-design contemporary stories in the way they influence the organisation of information.</p> <p>On the program:<br class='autobr' />
Thu 9-11 at 18h30: opening exhibition<br class='autobr' />
Thu 9-11 at 20h30: guided tour of the exhibition</p> <p>Fri 10-11 at 18h30: guided tour of the exhibition<br class='autobr' />
Fri 10-11 at 20h: lectures (more info soon)</p> <p>Sat 11-11 13-19h: workshop on Computervision by Nicolas Malevé, please register via an@constantvzw.org<br class='autobr' />
Sun 12-11 13-19h: workshop on reading and writing experiments with Neural Networks by Algolit, please register via an@constantvzw.org</p> <p>With & by: Manetta Berends, Cristina Cochior, Gijs de Heij, Hans Lammerant, An Mertens<br class='autobr' />
With the support of: Constant vzw/asbl, La Maison du Livre, Saison Numérique</p> <p>Algolit is a workgroup around algorithms and literature, initiated by Constant, an organisation for arts and media in Brussels. In the footsteps of Oulipo, the Algolit members share their experiences with code and text during monthly meetings, and conduct new experiments together.</p></div>
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Four freedoms for research and experimenthttp://constantvzw.org/site/Four-freedoms-for-research-and-experiment.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Four-freedoms-for-research-and-experiment.html2017-09-04T10:20:57Ztext/htmlenAnWorkshopFree, Libre and Open Source softwareAlgorithm
<p>Gijs de Heij, Manetta Berends and An Mertens will propose a workshop on the notion of public domain when it comes to machine learning practises, in the framework of 'Summerschool #2 Making Public Domain' in Middelheim Museum in Antwerp.<br class='autobr' />
Read more about the program on https://www.makingpublicdomain.be</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>Gijs de Heij, Manetta Berends and An Mertens will propose a workshop on the notion of public domain when it comes to machine learning practises, in the framework of 'Summerschool #2 Making Public Domain' in Middelheim Museum in Antwerp.</p> <p>Read more about the program on <a href='https://www.makingpublicdomain.be/' class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>https://www.makingpublicdomain.be</a></p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="https://www.makingpublicdomain.be/day-1-11-09" class="spip_out">https://www.makingpublicdomain.be/d...</a></div>
Books with an Attitudehttp://constantvzw.org/site/Books-with-an-Attitude,2837.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Books-with-an-Attitude,2837.html2017-08-03T15:33:01Ztext/htmlenAnPublishingExhibition
<p>During the Summer Books with an Attitude, a series of Constant's books, will be on display. You can also find an overview on the website: http://www.books.constantvzw.org/<br class='autobr' />
Books with an Attitude are published by Constant, made with 100% Free and Open Source Software and published under open content licenses. This is why they deserve the hallmark 'Book with an Attitude'. A lot of the texts are also available as plain text files on Constant Verlag, inviting you to reuse them for other works. (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>During the Summer Books with an Attitude, a series of Constant's books, will be on display. You can also find an overview on the website: <a href="http://www.books.constantvzw.org/" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.books.constantvzw.org/</a></p> <p>Books with an Attitude are published by Constant, made with 100% Free and Open Source Software and published under open content licenses. This is why they deserve the hallmark 'Book with an Attitude'. A lot of the texts are also available as plain text files on <a href="http://www.constantvzw.org/verlag/" class='spip_out' rel='external'>Constant Verlag</a>, inviting you to reuse them for other works.</p> <p>On Thursday 21 September at 18h Constant organises a big sales during the finissage of this expo.</p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="http://www.books.constantvzw.org/" class="spip_out">http://www.books.constantvzw.org/</a></div>
Relearn 2017 - call for participationhttp://constantvzw.org/site/Relearn-2017-call-for-participation.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Relearn-2017-call-for-participation.html2017-08-02T12:46:06Ztext/htmlenAnMeeting Days
<p>This summer Relearn is travelling to Rotterdam. After the organisers collected track proposals in the previous weeks, they are now looking for participants to make this week of relearning happen (29/08 - 02/09).<br class='autobr' />
Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants. It is motivated by the possibility to displace parameters of/for research, studying and learning. During the week of Relearn, we work with a set of case-studies, observations, questions or (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>This summer Relearn is travelling to Rotterdam. After the organisers collected track proposals in the previous weeks, they are now looking for participants to make this week of relearning happen (29/08 - 02/09).</p> <p>Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants. It is motivated by the possibility to displace parameters of/for research, studying and learning. During the week of Relearn, we work with a set of case-studies, observations, questions or stacks of study material that we call "tracks". Relearn outlines the idea of resetting thinking modes, for a diverse set of approaches that we can reconsider, that come out of the development of our cultures towards and through digital entities.</p> <p>This year's Relearn general focus is to reconsider forms of self-organising in regard to both machinic systems and social formations. We started to use the term "co-autonomies" to refer to these ideas. We hope to make use of the proposed tracks as a looking glass to reconstruct notions of agency and consider ways of maintaining them. Particularly within the current political and economic vortex, we would like to discover ways in which co-autonomies can be re-explored, re-shared and re-created from many different angles.</p> <p>For all the practical details, please visit <a href="http://relearn.be/2017/" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://relearn.be/2017/</a></p></div>
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Open Callhttp://constantvzw.org/site/Transmarcations-Open-Call.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Transmarcations-Open-Call.html2017-07-27T10:14:34Ztext/htmlenAnOpen CallCall for Participation
<p>Transmarcations experiments with ways to chart heres, wheres and others. This worksession situates itself at the crossing of technolgies with geographies, life's courses, bodies, terrains and deplacements.<br class='autobr' />
Transmarcations is interested in the complexity that emerges when cartography meets bodies in transition. By bodies in transition we mean migrating bodies as well as bodies that engage in an internal process of change, like gender transitions. By taking a closer look at the situation of (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p><i>Transmarcations</i> experiments with ways to chart heres, wheres and others. This worksession situates itself at the crossing of technolgies with geographies, life's courses, bodies, terrains and deplacements.</p> <p><i>Transmarcations</i> is interested in the complexity that emerges when cartography meets bodies in transition. By bodies in transition we mean migrating bodies as well as bodies that engage in an internal process of change, like gender transitions. By taking a closer look at the situation of these bodies, Transmarcations questions the (ir)relevance of standards and the intrinsic presence of cultural codes. What tools do we use? What language, which parameters, conventions?</p> <p><strong>Open Call</strong><br class='autobr' />
We invite you to apply for this worksession. Potential participants come from various disciplines to create prototypes, visualisations and models of speculative body-terrain combinations. Bio-mappers, artists, gender- and migration-activisten, science-hackers, cartographers, data-miners, self-quantifiers ... are welcome to experiment together with softwares, languages, bodies, navigation and other technologies to develop methods and practices around cartography, diagramming, mapping and technological graphical representations that create place for the extra-categorical, the complexities of contact zones in which people, terrains and other agents are related.<br class='autobr' />
Thirty people will take part in the worksession. Constant already invited some guests to prepare three different cases that will be presented during the worksession. We're looking for 18 extra participants.</p> <p><strong>Werksession?</strong><br class='autobr' />
Worksessions are intensive transdisciplinary moments, organised twice a year by Constant. We aim to provide conditions for participants with different experiences and capabilities to temporarily link their practice and to develop ideas, prototypes and research projects together. We primarily use Free, Libre and Open Source software and material that is available under Open Licenses.</p> <p><strong>Practical:</strong> <br class='autobr' />
<i>Transmarcations</i> takes place in Brussels from Sunday 3 till Saturday 9 December 2017. Participation is free and Constant provides travel costs, lunch and hosting for all participants. If you're interested to participate, please send an email to peter@constantvzw.org with your motivation <strong> before 14 September.</strong> We will answer by 20 September latest.</p> <p>You find more information here: <a href="http://www.constantvzw.org/site/-Transmarcations-.html" class='spip_out' rel='external'>http://www.constantvzw.org/site/-Transmarcations-.html</a></p></div>
European Unionhttp://constantvzw.org/site/European-Union.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/European-Union.html2017-07-12T09:05:08Ztext/htmlenDonatella
<p>Iterations<br class='autobr' />
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.ORGhttp://constantvzw.org/site/ORG.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/ORG.html2017-07-03T12:22:06Ztext/htmlenAnCollaborativeResidency
<p>An Mertens and Sarah Garcin will take part in .ORG, a 5 days / 5 nights residency of a collective work time that has been proposed to 50 persons, with discussions, creations, writing, hybridations, making , destroying… 1 open space of potentialities, 1 space-time, 1 isolated mountain place.<br class='autobr' /> 50 people gathered for their commitment in creation and/or events organization, 50 ways of being and making, 50 universes interacting with each other. Definitely. This is the end of beans (French (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>An Mertens and Sarah Garcin will take part in .ORG, a 5 days / 5 nights residency of a collective work time that has been proposed to 50 persons, with discussions, creations, writing, hybridations, making , destroying… 1 open space of potentialities, 1 space-time, 1 isolated mountain place.<br class='autobr' />
50 people gathered for their commitment in creation and/or events organization, 50 ways of being and making, 50 universes interacting with each other. Definitely. This is the end of beans (French expression for “the end of the everything”): beans not dead!<br class='autobr' />
This 24/7 space-time is not a programming. It is based on autonomy, the capacity of 50 people to create from scratch, to ensure technical or domestic needs, individually and collectively.</p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="http://orgpointorg.org/" class="spip_out">http://orgpointorg.org/</a></div>
QUANTIFY WHOLEHEARTEDLY SAINT-GILLES!http://constantvzw.org/site/QUANTIFY-WHOLEHEARTEDLY-SAINT-GILLES.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/QUANTIFY-WHOLEHEARTEDLY-SAINT-GILLES.html2017-06-30T08:58:10Ztext/htmlenDonatellaWorkshop
<p>In the frame of the installation QUANTIFY WHOLEHEARTEDLY in the window of Constant, Natacha Roussel and the Samedies organise a feminist workshop of design of environments of personal quantification tools.<br class='autobr' />
This workshop proposes a reflection on the measurement of bodies. This pervasive phenomenon offers many applications as a contribution to our well-being and takes on a new dimension in our conception of health. Personal quantification applications are dominated by private companies; they (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>In the frame of the installation <strong>QUANTIFY WHOLEHEARTEDLY</strong> in the window of Constant, <strong>Natacha Roussel</strong> and the <strong>Samedies</strong> organise a feminist workshop of design of environments of personal quantification tools.</p> <p>This workshop proposes a reflection on the measurement of bodies. This pervasive phenomenon offers many applications as a contribution to our well-being and takes on a new dimension in our conception of health. Personal quantification applications are dominated by private companies; they call themselves participative, while they are serving people who pursue a logic of valuing and accentuating differences between human beings.</p> <p>The participants will look at the modalities of these tools, how they work, what they measure, with what means, which are their purposes, to whom they are directed. After a rapid analysis, they will consider alternative proposals and test them, in the light of a feminist approach and a feminist design of these visualization tools.</p> <p>The workshop will start in the surrounding area of Saint-Gilles, with a test of a mobile online application developed by the Samedies. A different approach will be foreseen for people who do not have a smartphone.</p> <p>This workshop will reflect on the conditions for a feminist reappointment of the<br class='autobr' />
design processes for the benefit of community structures.</p></div>
Possible Bodies: Imagined Mishearingshttp://constantvzw.org/site/Possible-Bodies-Ultrasound-Mishearings.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Possible-Bodies-Ultrasound-Mishearings.html2017-06-27T16:37:58Ztext/htmlenFemke SneltingBody and softwareResidency
<p>This summer, the Possible Bodies inventory travels to Hangar (Barcelona) to mutate with local affinity networks and communities of concern. During a two-week residency, the collective research will focus on biomedical 3D imaging and how it models, scans and renders "real bodies". Possible Bodies is concerned by the merging of pharmacopornographic, Hollywood and military industries. In this techno-colonial and hetero-patriarchal landscape, violent ableist, misogynous and xenophobe (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>This summer, the Possible Bodies inventory travels to Hangar (Barcelona) to mutate with local affinity networks and communities of concern. During a two-week residency, the collective research will focus on biomedical 3D imaging and how it models, scans and renders "real bodies". Possible Bodies is concerned by the merging of pharmacopornographic, Hollywood and military industries. In this techno-colonial and hetero-patriarchal landscape, violent ableist, misogynous and xenophobe representations keep emerging. Through fictional accounts of actual open source projects such as <a href="http://slicer.org/" class='spip_out' rel='external'>3D-Slicer</a>, <a href="https://itk.org/" class='spip_out' rel='external'>ITK</a> and <a href="http://wiki.echopen.org/" class='spip_out' rel='external'>echOpen</a>, we want to ask how biomedical imaging composes, displaces and segments "bodies".</p> <p>Public presentations and workshops on <strong>Thursday July 27</strong>.</p></div>
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The Document Transformedhttp://constantvzw.org/site/The-Document-Transformed,2811.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/The-Document-Transformed,2811.html2017-06-21T06:53:59Ztext/htmlenFemke SneltingPresentationReading session
<p>Masterclass with Adva Zakai (Thursday) and presentation (Saturday) on the BioVision Hierarchy file format.<br class='autobr' />
BioVision Hierarchy (.bvh) is an ASCII file format used to import data from various motion capture systems into 3D-animation software. It was developed in the mid-nineties and remains one of the most commonly used file-formats for transposing movement captured in physical space, to a computational environment. Around this relatively legible format, a rich ecology of software tools (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>Masterclass with Adva Zakai (Thursday) and presentation (Saturday) on the BioVision Hierarchy file format.</p> <p>BioVision Hierarchy (.bvh) is an ASCII file format used to import data from various motion capture systems into 3D-animation software. It was developed in the mid-nineties and remains one of the most commonly used file-formats for transposing movement captured in physical space, to a computational environment. Around this relatively legible format, a rich ecology of software tools developed. The file-format functions as a boundary object between practices and bodies, as it is used by animators, game developers, interface researchers, medical professionals, dance-historians, sports-analysts and engineers.</p> <p>Together we will analyse the .bvh specifications and samples of the file format in order to understand what imaginaries of the body are encoded into it, what a bipedal skeleton hierarchy consists of, and how rotational data for rigid bodies might constitute a movement in itself.</p> <p>The reading of the .bvh file format is developed with Adva Zakai in the context of Possible Bodies, a collaborative research initiated by Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting on the very concrete and at the same time complex and fictional entities that “bodies” are, and the matter-cultural conditions of possibility that render them present.</p> <p>Image: Rigging Biovision Hierarchy with Sina Seifee.</p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="https://apass.be/a-pass-seminar-and-master-classes-the-document-transformed/" class="spip_out">https://apass.be/a-pass-seminar-and...</a></div>
Transmarcationshttp://constantvzw.org/site/Transmarcations,2809.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Transmarcations,2809.html2017-06-01T08:29:56Ztext/htmlenPeter WestenbergProject descriptionFeaturedWorksession
<p>Transmarcations experiments with ways to chart heres, wheres and others. This worksession situates itself at the crossing of technolgies with geographies, life's courses, bodies, terrains and deplacements.<br class='autobr' />
Transmarcations invites participants from various disciplines to create prototypes, visualisations and models of speculative body-terrain combinations. Bio-mappers, artists, gender- and migration-activisten, science-hackers, cartographers, data-miners, self-quantifiers ... are welcome to (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p><i>Transmarcations</i> experiments with ways to chart heres, wheres and others. This worksession situates itself at the crossing of technolgies with geographies, life's courses, bodies, terrains and deplacements.</p> <p><i>Transmarcations</i> invites participants from various disciplines to create prototypes, visualisations and models of speculative body-terrain combinations. Bio-mappers, artists, gender- and migration-activisten, science-hackers, cartographers, data-miners, self-quantifiers ... are welcome to experiment together with softwares, languages, bodies, navigation and other technologies. <i>Transmarcations</i> develops methods and practices around cartography, diagramming, mapping and technological graphical representations that create place for the extra-categorical, the complexities of contact zones in which people, terrains and other agents are related.</p> <p><i>Transmarcations</i> is interested in the complexity that emerges when cartography meets bodies in transition. By bodies in transition we mean migrating bodies as well as bodies that engage in an internal process of change, like gender transitions. By taking a closer look at the situation of these bodies, Transmarcations questions the (ir)relevance of standards and the intrinsic presence of cultural codes. What tools do we use? What language, which parameters, conventions?</p> <p>The actual social political context in which the worksession takes place, reminds us that mappings and data-visualisations play an important role in the monitoring of people and motions. Data analyses mark exceptions as suspect. Medical, migration and other standard forms tend to make nuanced representation impossible. People seeking assylum seem to best comply with stereotypical profiles in order to be considered as refugees. Also the complete surveillance of data traffic by (inter)national security services, coupled to the extreme extend to which internet giants profile their customers, leaves little space for diagonal affinities that can widen identitification beyond demarcated camps of 'us' and 'them' .</p> <p>Experimentations that put speculation, insecurity and border crossing in the center are urgent to generate situated, non-normative imaginations of possible alliances between bodies, trajectories and contexts. Beyond statistics and analyses, diagrams, models, charts are also means to set out new orientations, to project hybrid, fantastic, utopic desires unto a physical reality.</p> <p>Inspired by situated feminist geograpies we question who is looking. Who maps, and from which perspective? We like to mark a technographical X on a map that is in continuous change. That X does not represent a destination, it stands for a logic that addresses inequal power relations between people, that propagates spaces for freedom with a richer geometry than that of the axis, the production line, the uni directional feed. We situate bodies in space and time, disturb and re-arrange, stroll off the beaten paths and develop a relational practice of disorientations, looking besides the point, out of focus, for unexpected connections between species, surroundings, objects.</p> <p>The worksession takes place from 4 to 9 December in de Beursschouwburg in the centre of Brussels.</p> <p><strong>On the program so far:</strong><br class='autobr' />
* Concentrated collective workdays, workshops, moments of exchange (in presence of a.o. Pierre Huyghebaert, Pascale Barret, Alexander Antonopoulos)<br class='autobr' />
* Excursions to relevant places in Brussels (like f.ex. The National Geographical Institute)<br class='autobr' />
* An interactive installation that will grow through participation, by François Zagejá in the Big Hall<br class='autobr' />
* A public evening with lectures in the Beurscafé</p> <p><strong>(More details on the programme and participation will follow soon)</strong></p> <p><i>image: Attack of the panoramic jellyfish, Tom Lechner, cc-sa</i></p></div>
Narrative perspective of Neural Networks #8http://constantvzw.org/site/Narrative-perspective-of-Neural-Networks-8.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Narrative-perspective-of-Neural-Networks-8.html2017-05-29T15:19:31Ztext/htmlenAnWorkshopNetnative literatureAlgorithm
<p>Algolit explores neural networks to see how their process can be made legible, visible, understandable. We follow up on the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing course from Stanford University, by Richard Socher (https://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html). Please make sure you watch the first five video's of the course. Impressions and algoliterary experiments are shared throughout the day.<br class='autobr' /> Find notes of previous ones: http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/neural_networks_7 (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>Algolit explores neural networks to see how their process can be made legible, visible, understandable. We follow up on the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing course from Stanford University, by Richard Socher (<a href="https://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>https://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html</a>). Please make sure you watch the first five video's of the course. Impressions and algoliterary experiments are shared throughout the day.<br class='autobr' />
Find notes of previous ones: <a href="http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/neural_networks_7" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/neural_networks_7</a></p> <p>Algolit is a project of Constant, a working group around i-literature, free code and text.</p></div>
The Techno-Galactic Walk-in Clinichttp://constantvzw.org/site/The-Techno-Galactic-Walk-in-Clinic.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/The-Techno-Galactic-Walk-in-Clinic.html2017-05-29T05:42:36Ztext/htmlenFemke Snelting
<p>Do you suffer from the disappearance of your software into the cloud, feel oppressed by unequal user privilege, or experience the torment of software-ransom of any sort? Bring your devices and interfaces to the World Trade Center! With the help of a clear and in-depth session, at the Techno-Galactic Walk-In Clinic we guarantee immediate results.<br class='autobr' />
The Walk-In Clinic provides free hands-on observations to software curious people of all kinds. A wide range of professional and amateur (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p><strong>Do you suffer from the disappearance of your software into the cloud, feel oppressed by unequal user privilege, or experience the torment of software-ransom of any sort? Bring your devices and interfaces to the World Trade Center! With the help of a clear and in-depth session, at the Techno-Galactic Walk-In Clinic we guarantee immediate results.</strong></p> <p>The Walk-In Clinic provides free hands-on observations to software curious people of all kinds. A wide range of professional and amateur practitioners will provide you with Software-as-a-Critique-as-a-Service on the spot. Available services range from immediate interface critique, collaborative code inspection, data dowsing, various forms of network analyses, unusability testing, identification of unknown viruses, risk assessment, opening of black-boxes and more.</p> <p>Free software observations provided. Last intake at 16:45</p> <p>The walk-in clinic is a service provided by the Techno-Galactic Software Observatory, a worksession organised by Constant from 7-12 June.</p></div>
QUANTIFY WHOLEHEARTEDLYhttp://constantvzw.org/site/QUANTIFY-WHOLEHEARTEDLY.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/QUANTIFY-WHOLEHEARTEDLY.html2017-05-24T14:48:58Ztext/htmlenDonatellaExhibition
<p>In a world where digital practices are omnipresent, everything is measurable, including the number of steps we make, the amount of water we drink daily or even one's level of happiness. Self-quantification inhabits everyday practices. It becomes a game in which our body is envisioned as a set of numbers and charts that suppose to coach us towards a "better life".<br class='autobr' />
Self-quantification is at the origin of forms of body representations that blur the boundaries between what is considered to be (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>In a world where digital practices are omnipresent, everything is measurable, including the number of steps we make, the amount of water we drink daily or even one's level of happiness. Self-quantification inhabits everyday practices. It becomes a game in which our body is envisioned as a set of numbers and charts that suppose to coach us towards a "better life".</p> <p>Self-quantification is at the origin of forms of body representations that blur the boundaries between what is considered to be direct social control (measuring and quantification) and other forms of spectacle where bodies are constrained in aesthetic modelled forms and visualised as charts.</p> <p>This project was launched within the Brussels' women and free software group <strong>Samedies</strong> to explore the differences between community health support groups and commercial social networks organised by the corporations that develop self tracking applications. Participants in Samedies developed their own interfaces and tools and came up with a series of small games that propose a different approach, both feminist and collective.</p> <p>Come to the opening on <strong>Thursday 8 June 2017 from 18:00</strong> and follow up the different workshops to discover more about it!</p> <p><strong>Workshops:</strong><br class='autobr' />
<strong>17/06/2017 17:00 - 20:00:</strong> Presentation of Samedies, a Brussels-based women and free software working group <br class='autobr' />
<strong>07/07/2017 15:00 - 19:00:</strong> City Walks and feminist self-quantification</p> <p>Research & development: Samedies<br class='autobr' />
Installation: Natacha Roussel</p> <p><i>With the support of: DICRéAM, Service public francophone bruxellois, Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Dienst Nederlandstalige aangelegenheden Gemeente Sint-Gillis</i></p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="http://www.lesoiseaux.io" class="spip_out">http://www.lesoiseaux.io</a></div>
The Death of the Authors, 1945http://constantvzw.org/site/The-Death-of-the-Authors-1945.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/The-Death-of-the-Authors-1945.html2017-04-28T10:15:51Ztext/htmlenAnAudioPublishingCollective intelligenceExperimental publishing
<p>In 1945 the fifteen year old girl Anne Frank died in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. Her diary would have entered the public domain on 1 January 2016, but the arrival of this event caused a lot of commotion. The Anne Frank Foundation, an organisation that was set up by Anne's father, Otto Frank, collects the rights that come from the sales of the world most known diary. Parts of these benefits are regularly donated to charities. They claim that Anne's diary is still under copyright (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>In 1945 the fifteen year old girl Anne Frank died in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. Her diary would have entered the public domain on 1 January 2016, but the arrival of this event caused a lot of commotion. The Anne Frank Foundation, an organisation that was set up by Anne's father, Otto Frank, collects the rights that come from the sales of the world most known diary. Parts of these benefits are regularly donated to charities. They claim that Anne's diary is still under copyright till 1 January 2051. <br class='autobr' />
The book as we know it, published in 1947 in Dutch under the title Het Achterhuis (The Back House), is a compilation by Anne's father, Otto Frank. He copied and pasted fragments from the original manuscripts. And he would also have rewritten parts of the diary in his own style, which would make the book a derived work, and Anne's father the co-author. In this case, the copyright would expire only seventy years after his death in 1980. In the Netherlands and Belgium the fragments of the original manuscripts are in the public domain. The question remains whether the fragments Otto Frank has rewritten can be considered as an artistic intervention.</p> <p>As an experiment, but also as a paragon of the complexity that is so often hidden behind the notion of the 'public domain',we free Anne's Diary sentence by sentence. You are warmly invited to lend your voice to one or more sentences. You will be able to listen to the spoken sentences in random order. <br class='autobr' />
By recording a sentence you contribute to the construction of Anne Franks collective voice, as a call for worldwide freedom, tolerance and inclusivity. Furthermore, the sentences will be donated as trainingdata for free speech recognition softwares, like Voxforge, which suffer from a crucial lack of Dutch spoken language.</p> <p>The day the journal will be entirely in the public domain, the textbook will be freely available, as well as this collective audiobook. This promise will be integrated in the testaments of the two authors of this work, Stéphanie Vilayphiou and An Mertens.</p> <p>References:<br class='autobr' />
<a href="https://www.charlotteslaw.nl/2015/11/hoe-zit-dat-nou-auteursrecht-op-dagboek-anne-frank/" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>https://www.charlotteslaw.nl/2015/11/hoe-zit-dat-nou-auteursrecht-op-dagboek-anne-frank/</a><br class='autobr' />
<a href="https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2015:9312" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2015:9312</a><br class='autobr' />
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/01/02/anne-franks-diary-is-in-the.html" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://boingboing.net/2016/01/02/anne-franks-diary-is-in-the.html</a><br class='autobr' />
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/1/10698254/anne-frank-diary-free-download-copyright-dispute" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/1/10698254/anne-frank-diary-free-download-copyright-dispute</a></p></div>
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The library as an information broker and the maker movementhttp://constantvzw.org/site/The-library-as-an-information-broker-and-the-maker-movement,2799.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/The-library-as-an-information-broker-and-the-maker-movement,2799.html2017-04-28T09:57:45Ztext/htmlenAnLecture
<p>In the maker movement, information and sharing - primary library territory - are under scrutiny.<br class='autobr' /> During this session, (part of the CultuurConnect "Inspiratiedag: Focus op Makerspaces") you will get an introduction on the basic ideas and concepts behind creative commons, licenses, repositories and sharing as such. Where do you find existing designs and projects? Under what conditions are they available? How can the library produce knowledge and promote sharing within the maker movement? (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>In the maker movement, information and sharing - primary library territory - are under scrutiny.<br class='autobr' />
During this session, (part of the CultuurConnect "Inspiratiedag: Focus op Makerspaces") you will get an introduction on the basic ideas and concepts behind creative commons, licenses, repositories and sharing as such. Where do you find existing designs and projects? Under what conditions are they available? How can the library produce knowledge and promote sharing within the maker movement? What are the proverbial hot potatoes? Online repositories and platforms are not neutral territory and they are often linked to other interests. <br class='autobr' />
Wendy Van Wynsberghe gives you a critical guided tour along an overview of platforms, repositories and online libraries, taking their potential and limitations into account.</p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="http://www.cultuurconnect.be/inspiratiedag-focus-op-makerspaces" class="spip_out">http://www.cultuurconnect.be/inspir...</a></div>
Narrative perspective of Neural Networks #7http://constantvzw.org/site/Narrative-perspective-of-Neural-Networks-7.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Narrative-perspective-of-Neural-Networks-7.html2017-04-28T08:30:29Ztext/htmlenAnWorkshopNetnative literatureAlgorithm
<p>Algolit explores neural networks to see how their process can be made legible, visible, understandable. We follow up on the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing course from Stanford University, by Richard Socher (https://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html). Please make sure you watch the first five video's of the course. Impressions and algoliterary experiments are shared throughout the day.<br class='autobr' /> Find notes of previous ones: http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/neural_networks_6 (...)</p>
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<a href="http://constantvzw.org/site/+-Algorithm-+.html" rel="tag">Algorithm</a>
<div class='rss_texte'><p>Algolit explores neural networks to see how their process can be made legible, visible, understandable. We follow up on the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing course from Stanford University, by Richard Socher (<a href="https://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>https://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html</a>). Please make sure you watch the first five video's of the course. Impressions and algoliterary experiments are shared throughout the day.<br class='autobr' />
Find notes of previous ones: <a href="http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/neural_networks_6" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/neural_networks_6</a></p> <p>Algolit is a project of Constant, a working group around i-literature, free code and text.</p></div>
Designing Constant_V: Antoine Gelgonhttp://constantvzw.org/site/Design-files.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Design-files.html2017-04-23T21:46:45Ztext/htmlenFemke SneltingResource
<p>Every year Constant commissions another designer or design collective using Free, Libre and Open Source tools, to work on the two-monthly flyers for Constant_V.<br class='autobr' />
In 2016, we invited Antoine Gelgon. He decided to use the flyers to develop and experiment with the typeface Ocr-PBI that he designed with Lise Brosseau. Ocr-PBI in turn is based on Ocr-B metafont, a typeface by Norbert Schwarz. Ocr-PBI uses the Metafont language, which means that by changing for example the width, stroke and trace (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>Every year Constant commissions another designer or design collective using Free, Libre and Open Source tools, to work on the two-monthly flyers for Constant_V.</p> <p>In 2016, we invited <strong>Antoine Gelgon</strong>. He decided to use the flyers to develop and experiment with the typeface <a href="https://gitlab.com/atelier-bek/ocr-pbi.metapost" class='spip_out' rel='external'>Ocr-PBI</a> that he designed with Lise Brosseau. Ocr-PBI in turn is based on Ocr-B metafont, a typeface by Norbert Schwarz. Ocr-PBI uses the Metafont language, which means that by changing for example the width, stroke and trace parameters, many different variations can be generated. See also: <a href="http://www.p-b-i.eu/ceci-dit/#police" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.p-b-i.eu/ceci-dit/#police</a></p> <p>Each of Antoine's designs for Constant_V used a different lay-out and another iteration of the font, creating a playful series of visually connected typographic images. In addition, he used <a href="http://osp.kitchen/tools/html2print/" class='spip_out' rel='external'>html2print</a> to lay out the publication <a href="http://constantvzw.org/documents/oic/Peggy.publication.pdf" class='spip_out' rel='external'>Peggy: An object in common</a>.</p> <p>Since completing the series, Antoine continues to work with Open Source tools for projects such as Medor magazine. Antoine is an active member of <a href='http://www.atelier-bek.be/' class='spip_out' rel='external'>Atelier Bek</a> and works regurlary with <a href="http://osp.kitchen/" class='spip_out' rel='external'>OSP</a>.</p> <p>In 2017-2018 the Brussels collective <strong><a href='http://ecranpapier.be/' class='spip_out' rel='external'>Ecran Papier</a></strong> will be responsible for Constant_V flyers and more.</p> <p>Source files and fonts can be found here: <a href="http://gitlab.constantvzw.org/design/2016-17" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://gitlab.constantvzw.org/design/2016-17</a></p></div>
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Let's build a library togetherhttp://constantvzw.org/site/Let-s-build-a-library-together,2788.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Let-s-build-a-library-together,2788.html2017-04-23T21:29:56Ztext/htmlenFemke SneltingWorkshopArchives
<p>Let's Build a Library Together invites designers, artists, theoreticians, hackers, librarians and activists to join forces during an intense week of discussion, collective prototyping and exchange on the future of Public Libraries in the digital age.<br class='autobr' />
Femke Snelting contributes to the workshop initiated by Public Library/Memory of the World and Institute for Contemporary Art, (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p><i>Let's Build a Library Together</i> invites designers, artists, theoreticians, hackers, librarians and activists to join forces during an intense week of discussion, collective prototyping and exchange on the future of Public Libraries in the digital age.</p> <p>Femke Snelting contributes to the workshop initiated by Public Library/Memory of the World and Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz.</p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="http://izk.tugraz.at/semesters/workshop-1-amateur-librarian/" class="spip_out">http://izk.tugraz.at/semesters/work...</a></div>
Possible Bodies: Collective Inventoryinghttp://constantvzw.org/site/Possible-Bodies-Collective-Inventorying.html
http://constantvzw.org/site/Possible-Bodies-Collective-Inventorying.html2017-04-23T21:08:16Ztext/htmlenFemke SneltingBody and softwareResidency
<p>Possible Bodies interrogates corpo-realities and their orientation through parametric interfaces and looks at anatomies that are computationally constrained by the requirements of mesh-modeling.<br class='autobr' />
From 6 until 14 May, Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha gather a transdisciplinary group of researchers in Akademie Schloss Solitude to collaboratively activate an inventory of software, games, animations, concepts, artworks and digital documents. This activation happens through software performance, (...)</p>
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<div class='rss_texte'><p>Possible Bodies interrogates corpo-realities and their orientation through parametric interfaces and looks at anatomies that are computationally constrained by the requirements of mesh-modeling.</p> <p>From 6 until 14 May, Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha gather a transdisciplinary group of researchers in Akademie Schloss Solitude to collaboratively activate an inventory of software, games, animations, concepts, artworks and digital documents. This activation happens through software performance, collective reading, bug reporting, somatic development and disobedient action research.</p> <p>Programme and participants: <a href="http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?Stuttgart" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?Stuttgart</a></p></div>
<div class="hyperlien">View online : <a href="http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org" class="spip_out">http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org</a></div>